Viewing Lifecycle Rules and Object Expiration

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Viewing Lifecycle Rules via VAST Web UI

In the left navigation menu, choose Element Store -> Lifecycle Rules to open the Lifecycle Rules page.

For each configured lifecycle rule, the following information can be displayed:

Tip

To display or hide fields, click column_menu.png to the right of a column title, and then click columns.png to open a dropdown where you can select or unselect fields.

ID

The ID of the lifecycle rule.

Name

The name of the lifecycle rule.

Prefix

In S3 terms, this is a prefix that may be common to multiple object keys (names). Specifying a prefix defines a scope of objects to which the rule applies. For example, if you specify sales/jan, all objects in the view that have object keys that begin with sales/jan will fall into the scope.  

In terms of file and directory nomenclature, a prefix is a file and/or directory path within the view that can include part of the file or directory name. It can be common to multiple items in order to catch them all within the scope.  

For example, if you want to specify all files under a directory called sales that resides under the view, you can enter sales/. This prefix will exclude the directory itself from the scope. If you were to enter sales that would include the directory as well as all the files under the directory. If you were to enter sales/j that would include all files under the directory with names that begin with 'j'.

Min Size

The minimum size of objects to which the rule applies, if configured.

Max Size

The maximum size of objects to which the rule applies, if configured.

Expiration Days

A number of days after upload when objects in the scope are expired.

View

The view to which the rule applies.

Tenant

The tenant where the rule applies.

Enabled

Indicates whether the rule is currently enabled or not.

Viewing Lifecycle Rules and Object Expiration via VAST CLI

To list lifecycle rules per view, run the lifecyclerule list command.

To view details of a lifecycle rule, run the lifecyclerule show command.

To see when an object in a bucket governed by S3 lifecycle rules is due to expire, run the lifecyclerule get-object-expiration command.